Reno Stonewall:
Third Time a Charm?

By

Robert L. Bartley

Updated June 26, 2000 1:36 a.m. ET

T he striking thing about the latest recommendation of an independent investigation of Al Gore and his Buddhist Temple hijinks is how quickly it leaked. Capitol Hill sources report that the attorney general -- "visibly perturbed over the premature disclosure," as the AP described her at her weekly briefing Friday -- is ordering an internal investigation of the leak.

So the indomitable Ms. Reno will strap a polygraph around Robert J. Conrad Jr., who brought her the same bad news the third time around as the...